Khái Hưng

Trần Khánh Giư, pen-name Khái Hưng (1896 in Cổ Am village, Vĩnh Bảo, Hải Phòng – 17 November 1947 in Cựa Gà, Xuân Trường) was a Vietnamese novelist, a pro-independence but non-communist intellectual.

Khai Hung

As a boy he studied at the Lycée Albert Sarraut in Hanoi. From 1933 he was part of the new Tự Lực Văn Đoàn "Self-Strengthening Literary Group" with editor Nhất Linh and his novels were first serialized in the group's magazines before being published as books. Just as Nhất Linh was a pen name ("One-Zero" 壹零) Giu briefly adopted the pen name Nhị Linh ("Two-Zero" 貳零).

In 1941, as a member of Nhat Linh's Dai Viet Democratic Party (DVDC) he was arrested by the French, along with the artist Nguyễn Gia Trí.[1]

He was captured by the Việt Minh in the Lạc Quần, Trực Ninh area, then executed at Cựa Gà on 17 November 1947.[2]

Works

His novels were written in a style influenced by social realism, and were critical of many aspects of traditional Vietnamese society.[3]

Novels
  • Hồn bướm mơ tiên (1933)
  • Ðời mưa gió (with Nhất Linh, 1933)
  • Nửa Chừng Xuân (1934)
  • Gánh hàng hoa (with Nhất Linh, 1934)
  • Trống mái (1936)
  • Gia đình (1936)
  • Tiêu sơn tráng sĩ (1937)
  • Thoát ly (1938)
  • Hạnh (1938)
  • Ðẹp (1940)
  • Thanh Ðức (1942)

Collections of Stories
  • Anh phải sống (with Nhất Linh, 1934)
  • Tiếng suối reo (1935)
  • Ðợi chờ (1940)
  • Cái ve (1944)
gollark: (I know, I just joke about it being inevitable lots)((OR DO I?))
gollark: See, I like capitalism but dislike much of how the government works.
gollark: And because of that complexity you need to throw money at lawyers to deal with legal things and may have to settle for a bad outcome *even if you're innocent*.
gollark: The current legal system is in my opinion one of the worst aspects of our society, as the law is so large and complicated that one person literally cannot understand it all and they can be imprisoned due to not knowing.
gollark: You don't need to actually *do* anything. The communist revolution is just inevitable...

References
  1. Imperial Japan and National Identities in Asia, 1895–1945 - Page 227 Li Narangoa, R. B. Cribb - 2003 "In 1941, well known members of the DVDC (Hoang Dao, Khai Hung and Nguyen Gia Tri) were arrested by the French "
  2. Virtual lotus: modern fiction of Southeast Asia - Page 278 Teri Shaffer Yamada - 2002 "Khai Hung (1896–1947) is the pen name of Tran Khanh Giu, a cofounder (along with Nhat Linh) of the powerful Self-Reliance ... In 1947, while fleeing for safety to his wife's village, he was captured by the Viet Minh and died at Gua Ga in Nam Dinh "
  3. Vietnamese short stories: an introduction James Banerian - 1986 "In 1947 while fleeing for safety to his wife's village, Khai Hung was captured by the Viet Minh and murdered at Cua Ga, in Nam Dinh province. A bold intellectual, Khai Hung often challenged the very roots of traditional Vietnamese society."
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